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TIMES-ADVOCATE Tod of the i Saturday, July 2, 1983 Escondido, California Benefits impasse stop, goes on Sport Saturday It's Martina against Jaeger at Wimbledon, A12 Padres tumble to Giants, 4-3, A12 Fridays SACRAMENTO (AP) Gov. George Deukmejian and state legislators planned to spend their 4th of July weekend in the Capitol trying to break a budget impasse which has already delayed benefits to 130,000 unemployed and disabled Californians. If the budget stalemate continues into next week, nursing homes and hospitals will be the next group affected, because Controller Ken Cory says he wont issue $120 million in Medi-Cal payments next Thursday if the budget isnt signed by then. It would be still another week before any employee paychecks would be affected, but beginning Friday Deukmejian banned all equipment purchases or out-of-state travel by state employees. A political fight over whether to raise taxes or cut spending to bridge a $1.2 billion deficit in the pending $27.2 billion budget for the 1983-84 fiscal year pushed the state past the Thursday midnight deadline to adopt a new state budgeet.

Cory said he would continue to pay bills incurred in the old fiscal year, but that he cant issue checks for any obligation incurred after Thursday until a new state budget is passed by the Legislature and glad you asked me that question, he readily replies. If you buy it now, it costs just. Only products that need explaining need pitchmen. A flower pot does not need a pitchman. A knife that could do just about anything despite its ordinary looks, however, does.

"The product has to be demonstrated, said one pitchman who asked that his name not be used. "Thats the key to all of these products. Because the products must be demonstrated, few of them can be found in stores. Mike Good, who along with his wife was pitching a Bamix mixer, conceded that his product looks like a simple milk shake maker. Ah, but the Bamix mixer can do just about anything a good cook would need.

But you have to demonstrate it, Good said. Were profession- Please see Pitchmen, page A4 Splash of color 0an Tl Visitors to the Del Mar Fair add their own colorful touch to a horticultural display. The fair ends Monday with a fireworks show. up. Step right By David Ogul The Times-Advocate DEL MAR Paul Motosko has been working as a pitchman on the nations fair circuit for more than half of his 30 years.

The reason, Motosko says, is because, "You go work wherever you like and youre your own boss. Motosko calls it freedom. When the Del Mar Fair ends this Fourth of July weekend, Motosko will continue in the work that has provided him with the independence he cherishes. Hell head off for Cheyenne, for that citys Frontier Days. Pitchmen are a proud and often misunderstood breed.

They do not like to be referred to simply as salesmen. Pitchmen are the best of the salesman, boasted Motosko. The best of the salesmen have been selling everything from cosmetics to snack and sandwich makers to Del Mar fairgoers for signed by Deukmejian. Since the monthly payroll for 220,000 state employees and benefits for 2.3 million welfare recipients were paid Thursday, the only immediate impact was felt by recipients of unemployment and disability checks. Cory said those payments, which come from a revolving account that is replenished daily, had to be suspended Friday, and that a $92 million check to the federal government due Friday will be delayed until the budget is passed.

Democrats said they would try to pass emergency legislation this weekend to resume the unemployment and disability checks next week, but the Republican governor hinted that he might not sign the bill. Deukmejian said in an interview that the cutoff of unemployment and disability benefits was "very serious and that he would consider" a bill to resume those payments. Assistant Controller John Jervis said unemployment and disability benefits which were not paid to recipients who normally receive them on Fridays will be paid next week if a budget is signed by then. Jurors felt sympathy for Flowers By David Hart The Times Advocate VISTA A jury of eight women and four men needed just 50 minutes to decide that Deborah Flowers was innocent by reason of self-defense of shooting her live-in boyfriend as he slept. Miss Flowers, 22, endured four hours of brutal sexual and physical abuse before she shot Ricky Duncan in the head with his .357 Magnum pistol.

Juror Colleen Triggs of Escondido said of the women on the jury: We all said that if we went through the same thing as her, we might have done what she did. Miss Flowers, dressed in denim jail clothes, sat with her eyes fixed straight ahead and said simply, Thank you, to her attorney. She was scheduled to be released from Please see Rowers, page A4 The geodesic dome, a linking of triangles into a strong and lightweight sphere, is his most famous construction. Like the rest of his inventions, it grew out of his conviction that technology could provide "Spaceship Earth a means for providing all of its inhabitants more and more of everything. Its as if there are all these people on one side of a roaring gorge, and there is plenty of food but it is all on the other side," he said in a 1977 interview.

So if I build them a bridge over the gorge, they will automatically use the bridge. I dont say anything: I just build bridges. Fuller, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, was a fundamental optimist who made opportunities of personal setbacks. fireworks Pets are another problem on the Fourth. According to Bob Shepard of the Escondido Humane Society, "We find many, many dogs running lose, frightened by fireworks.

So If people must use noisemakers, please think of your pets. Shepard said pets arent used to such human revels and can panic and do wild things. Theyll jump fences, run into traffic, go through glass windows. We had a good number killed on the streets last year, run over by cars. Shepard said its a good Idea to put your pet In a kennel to be watched over by others If youre going to be gone for the entire weekend.

If youre going to be gone on the Fourth only, be sure to keep your pet securely tethered or locked up In a garage or backyard. Its a good Idea to have an adult at home to maintain control. The likelihood of accidents and fires prompted the federal govern- Please see Fireworks, page A4 Scores and sweet Even so, the parade is only expected to last a quarter of an hour. But some people will see twice. When it starts, the people who see the first part of the parade pick up their chairs and run across town to catch it again, said Sandy Mills, who heads the local community service center.

Primer The use of fireworks is a misdemeanor, and violators can receive a fine of up to $500, six months in jail or both. R. Buckminster Fuller dies at wife's bedside two weeks. When the fair ends, they will be off to such places as Pomona, Sacramento and Cheyenne to hone their skills and earn their pay. For them, the fair season has just begun.

Pitchmen can be distinguished from mere salesmen through their techniques. Fair salesmen generally sit behind a counter waiting to sell something. Pitchmen, however, give demonstrations on how their products work, often sprinkling the demonstration with humor. They convince the consumer that a product is so incredibly important to his life, it must be bought. A good pitchman will show a consumer how to make mayonnaise out of an ordinary-looking contraption that can also chop celery, make bread crumbs and slice just about anything you would ever want sliced.

How much does it cost? asks the pitchman. Im LOS ANGELES (AP) R. Buckminster Fuller, the inventor and philosopher who designed the geodesic dome and preached technology as the salvation of humankind, died Friday at the hospital bedside of his sick wife. He was 87. I can tell you Buckminster Fuller died at this hospital at 4:50 p.m.

(PST) today," said Good Samaritan Hospital spokeswoman Ruth Scott. I can give you no other information." She said Fullers family had asked that the circumstances of the death not be released until this morning. However, a source at the hospital who asked not to be identified said Fuller was stricken at the bedside of his wife, a patient at the hospital. It was very sudden, the source more. By a factor of 10." Injuries that dont require hospital care are likely to go unreported, he said.

"People know fireworks are illegal, so theyre reluctant to report Injuries," he said. The Bum Institute reported that In California fom June 13 to July 12, 1982, 613 people were treated In hospital emergency rooms for firework-related Injuries. Of those people, 289 were under 17 years of age. Most of the injuries involved the fingers, hands, eyes and arms. The U.S.

Consumer Product Safety Commission gave more graphic examples of the hazards of fireworks: A 40-year-old man stepped on a firecracker and Injured his foot when a friend threw It at him and yelled. 4. A young boy lost part of his hand after he lit a fuse of an M-100 and tried to extinguish It with his fingers. He could not get rid of it before It exploded. A toddler ran Into the Ignited hand fountain held by his sister.

He This parade is short JULIAN, Pa. (AP) People In this community of 600 can be excused for going In circles when they stage their Independence Day parade this weekend. The town doesnt have much room to hold a parade. So In order to prolong the fun, planners have decided to loop todays march around town twice. Saturday it R.

Buckminster Fuller Inventor and philosopher IHlave a blast on the Fourth, but stay away from said. The wife is extremely old, she is very ill, and he was visiting her." Fuller wrote 25 books, including Nine Chains to the Moon and Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth," after being expelled by Harvard and failing as a businessman. He amassed a loyal following on college campuses and kept to a vigorous lecture schedule well into his 80s, spending most of his time traveling. He designed a house that hung from a mast, a map of the world that showed all the continents without distortion, a three-wheeled car that could turn in its own length and a molded bathroom unit with a fog gun that used only a quart of water for a 10-mlnute bath. burned his eye.

A 5-year-old got into an argument with another child, who ignited the sleeve of the boys shirt with a sparkler. The victim ran home, further spreading the fire on his clothes. He spent 10 days In the hospital. Locally, Dawson said a toddler was admitted to Tri-City Hospital last year for an Injury when a firecracker was thrown Into the stroller." He also said that brush fires have been common In the past. Weve had several fires In the past due to fireworks," he said.

We even had one last year at the park (Brengle Terrace Park). Weve also had a brush fire near a mobile-home park started by fireworks. Fortunately, we caught it early." Dawson said area fire departments are especially worried about the potential fire hazard. "The brush Is so dry and the departments so small that the potential for disaster Is there." By Jean Henshaw The Times-Advocate This may put a damper on your Fourth of July blast, but the sale or individual possession of any fireworks Is Illegal in San Diego County. That means no sparklers, no cherry bombs, no Roman candles, rockets, wheels or party poppers.

If you want to see fireworks, youll have to watch one of the many professional shows being held around the county. San Diego County banned the personal use of fireworks In 1977 because the chance of serious injury especially to children was too great. In fact, the San Diego Bum Institute said that during last years Fourth of July season, 10 people were Injured and 14 fires were started by fireworks. But Paul Dawson, assistant fire marshal for Vista, said those figures dont accurately tell the story. He said Injuries from fireworks were a lot more than that.

A lot s' 9 Donna CosentinoTha Times Advocate Roger Burrows of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission displays several kinds of fireworks all illegal. I.